>"Murph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>Anyone out there using an HTML editor that they'd like to recommend?
>Why? Are there any FAQs I should be reading for this answer?
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>Yours,
>Murph
I prefer NoteTab Light -- http://www.notetab.com/ -- which is a very
powerful text editor. While it can't do all the GUI design and doesn't
have syntax highlighting, everything else altogether makes it worth it.
It allows you to have multiple files open at the same time using a
tabbed interface (hence the name), and will (optionally) open all the
files you had open your last editing session when you start it up. My
favorite feature is the Match Brackets feature, which is nice for making
sure you're not missing braces, etc.
for example, given this piece of code ( (cursorhere) marks the cursor
position):
function foo() {
if($somecondition || (cursorhere) someothercondition) { do_this(); }
}
ctrl+M (shortcut key to match brackets) would highlight everything
between the parenthesis in the if. Using it again with that highlighted
would highlight everything in the function.
NoteTab can also do other useful things, like count word occurance,
search/replace across all open files, read (to some extent) binary files,
trim whitespace, sort lines alphabetically, and all that neat stuff. It
automatically recognizes EBCDIC (remember that) and will automatically
convert to and from UNIX/Mac/DOS/Windows line endings. All and all, my
favorite text editor by far even without the syntax highlighting. It even
has a 'replace notepad/restore notepad' option that you may find yourself
using.
NoteTab Light is free. There are other versions (NoteTab Standard and
NoteTab Pro) that are not free, but I have never had a use for them. I
have heard of a library for it that colorizes HTML but have not yet seen
it/played with it, and if it does exist and work well it'd be nice to
have one for PHP. Personally, I'd love something like the Visual Studio-
like function declaration tooltips and/or a way to navigate to any
function in the project (Venura <http://dewin.oldbattery.com/venura/>
currently runs 94 functions in 5994 lines of code -- and that's with the
mass optimizations I've been doing the last couple weeks.) However,
I think NoteTab is written with the html author/developer.
DISCLAIMER: The author of this email is in no way shape or form affiliated
with NoteTab and/or it's authors, except for happening to love the program.
Side note: Out of all the people I've recommended NoteTab too, almost all of
them like it.
--
- Daniel Grace <http://dewin.oldbattery.com/>
"Space may be the final frontier but its made in a Hollywood basement."
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
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